Dictionary entry details
• QUEEN (noun)
Meaning:
The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
insect (small air-breathing arthropod)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "queen"):
queen bee (fertile egg-laying female bee)
Meaning:
A female sovereign ruler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
female monarch; queen regnant; queen
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "queen"):
Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)
Instance hyponyms:
Mary Queen of Scots; Mary Stuart (queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587))
Liliuokalani; Lydia Kamekeha Paki Liliuokalani (queen of the Hawaiian islands (1838-1917))
Isabella; Isabella I; Isabella the Catholic; Queen Isabella (the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504))
Cleopatra (beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC))
Holonyms ("queen" is a member of...):
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)
Antonym:
king (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
Meaning:
The wife or widow of a king
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "queen"):
queen regent (a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot)
queen dowager (the widow of a king)
queen consort (the wife of a reigning king)
Instance hyponyms:
Catherine Parr; Parr (Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548))
Nefertiti (queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC))
Marie Antoinette (queen of France (as wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular; her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793))
Jezebel (wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC))
Catherine Howard; Howard (Queen of England as the fifth wife of Henry VIII who was accused of adultery and executed (1520-1542))
Esther ((Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim))
Eleanor of Aquitaine (queen of France as the wife of Louis VII; that marriage was annulled in 1152 and she then married Henry II and became Queen of England (1122-1204))
Catherine de Medicis (queen of France as the wife of Henry II and regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (1519-1589))
Anne Boleyn; Boleyn (the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I; was executed on a charge of adultery (1507-1536))
Jane Seymour; Seymour (Queen of England as the third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI (1509-1537))
Holonyms ("queen" is a member of...):
royal family; royal house; royal line; royalty (royal persons collectively)
Meaning:
Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context examples:
Paris is the queen of cities / the queen of ocean liners
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
personification (a person who represents an abstract quality)
Meaning:
A competitor who holds a preeminent position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
world-beater; king; queen
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)
Meaning:
Offensive terms for an openly homosexual man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
queer; pouf; poove; poof; nance; fagot; faggot; fag; fairy; pansy; queen
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
gay man; shirtlifter (a homosexual man)
Meaning:
One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
court card; face card; picture card (one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face)
Holonyms ("queen" is a member of...):
deck; deck of cards; pack of cards (a pack of 52 playing cards)
Meaning:
(chess) the most powerful piece
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
chess piece; chessman (any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Meaning:
An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
queen mole rat; queen
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
naked mole rat (fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites)
Meaning:
Female cat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
tabby; queen
Hypernyms ("queen" is a kind of...):
domestic cat; Felis catus; Felis domesticus; house cat (any domesticated member of the genus Felis)
• QUEEN (verb)
Meaning:
Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "queen" is one way to...):
promote (change a pawn for a king by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it the row closest to your opponent)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Become a queen
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
her pawn queened
Hypernyms (to "queen" is one way to...):
promote (be changed for a superior chess or checker piece)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
